Feminist engagements
Subtitle: forays into American literature and culture
By: Shelley Fisher Fishkin.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780312238582; 9780230615946
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History; Women -- United States -- Intellectual life; Feminism in literature; Women, White, in literature; Minority women in literature; Authorship -- Sex differences
Description: Offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative ,explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists challenges to cultural paradigms. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.